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Earthling, she/her, educator, reader, tabletop gamer, and more. Avatar by Corinne Roberts. If you want my views and zines on AI, check out padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI "Social" media: I use Anisota.net for posting and I block as needed to protect my peace.
I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
It's like when tech billionaires invoke sci-fi stories, and people say, "he doesn't even understand that story's dystopian," but yes, they do get that! They simply embrace the dystopia, market it as inevitable, and want you to understand yourself as a winner or loser in that context—on their terms.
I recommend all!! Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social was most focused on what I specifically wanted to learn. Others:
The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social
Resisting AI by @danmcquillan.bsky.social
More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social
This book has been my favorite of the four I've read on AI or Big Tech.
In comments of the quoted thread, @fractalecho.bsky.social says:
"In my book I call this the Disability Diversion where all criticism of techno fascism is deflected with appeals to technosaviorism."
"Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI"
by Rua M. Williams
This is so cool! And also, if this dates back far enough, it wouldn't just be a general interest in astronomy, it's about learning very real tools and skills for timekeeping and celestial navigation on the ocean!
A tiny patch of short closed white blooms on the ground, surrounded by leaves
So far in Michigan this is all I have, but it was such a joy to see them. Crocuses soon, I hope.
this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
Ugh, I'm glad I made it out of my own schooling uses of them and that the courses I teach now don't have built in need of Mathematica or Wolfram, because that sucks to hear.
Oh no what happened
A screenshot of an email from Senator Elissa Slotkin whose subject line is "Where to find me." I circled in the screenshot the text "our new Substack," which is a platform known to be pro-Nazi.
I really wish the pro-Nazi platform wasn't where I could find my senator, actually.
i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat
but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it
Facing consequences, boundaries & friction are the roots of all education, maturity, growth, empathy, & change - these are all prosocial life skills
Ai like capitalism fascism colonialism & white supremacy are joyless miserable cruel vapid vile stagnant shameless infantile loser temper tantrums
i thought you had to officially declare war but maybe that’s just for thumbs
Em dashes were way more prevalent and overused in earlier models, but they originally came from the human writing that the LLMs are trained on, so use them when it feels right to do so! And my parents have ended their texts with ellipses for YEARS and I'm not worried about them using bots lol.
CFP, AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation & Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices! Note "This collection is focused ...on the strategies & actions of individuals, communities, organisations & collectives to actively resist, refuse, reimagine & reclaim 'artificial intelligence."
Lol oops I thought I had sent it as a direct reply anyway 😅
Sarah makes a great loco moco!
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
We are really going to regret the technology we have built.
illustration on a brown background. It says "all of us deserve a thriving world" in black and "end US imperialism" in pink, with pink wildflowers, stars, and constellations in the roots of the flowers breaking up a bomb
Another one by Olly:
ollycostello.com/portfolio
War is massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who do know each other but don't massacre each other.
Please, please end your partnership with OpenAI, @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org. In addition to everything else, given all that we know, it seems incredibly likely that that company is going to funnel student input straight into government surveillance files.
Great reminder to finally buy one of these no-AI artworks from Michele! I've been admiring them from a distance for a while. 💜
More broadly, the essay is a great example of the "illusion of understanding" that @lmesseri.bsky.social and I warned in 2024 would be a risk of using LLMs, especially as they become more capable
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The rich are fully aware of climate catastrophe. But their solution for climate catastrophe is to get rid of the rest of us by the way. That’s why tech bros are arguing robots are less resource consuming than humans so openly.
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